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GENERAL
The Japan Hotel Association Should Chinese Language
Chinese Language ALL MILK TO BE
IN JAPAN
AKAKURA
MEMBER HOTELS
(68 members in sil) Konk
Oriental Hotel
Tor Hotel
+Akakuru Kanko Hotel KroTO
ATAXI
Atawi Hotel Mampei Hotel
Barre Kyushu)
Kanstoi Hotel
CHUZENJI (NIXKO)
Lakeside Hotel
FUJI FIVE LAKES
DISTRICT
-Fuji Now Grand Hotel
(Laro Yamanaka) Fuji View Hotel
(Lake Kawaguchi)
Forcoxi
.....
Kyoto Hotel
Miyako Hotel
Kyoto Station Hotel
MATHURUIMA
•Park Hotal MIYAJIKA
Miyajima Hotel MIYANOSHITA Hakoto)
Fujiya Hotel
NAGOYA
Nagoya-Hotel-
NARA
***
Kyushu Hotel Shin-yu Hotel Cozen Hotel
Unzen Kanto Hotel
Yumei Hotel YOKOHAMA
Hotel New Grand
IN TAIWAN (Formosa)
TAOKU
Talhoku Railway Hotel
IN CHOSEN
Heljo Railway Hotel KIJO
Chosen Hotel
Maupul Hotel
Naxoga Kanko Hotel
HELO
Kyoihlatai Botel
Nara Hote!
Nixo
Gomageri Hotel
Kanaya Hotel
DRAKA
IN MANCHOUKUO
Dobull Hotel
DAIDEN
Nagaragawa Hotel
ΚΑΤΑΣΤΗΜ
Kaitin Hotel
Kaxikoonz (Japan Alps)
Kamikochi Imperial
Hotel
KABATSU (Dear Fukuoka)
Karatea Seaside Hotel
KABULZAWA
Mapei Hotel·
Makazo ctel
KAWANA
Kawana Hotel
KONIN (midway
between Osaka and Kobe)
Koatien Hotel
Hotel Now Qua
Osaka Hotal
Orit (near Lake Biwa)
Hotel Lake Biwa
Barrono (Hokkaido)
Sapporo Grand Hotel SHIMONOREXI
Sanyo Hotel
TAKARASUKA (Nor Kobe)
Takarsanka Hotel
Τύπτο
Imperial Hetol
Mampai Hotel
Omori Hotel
+ Bagno Hotel
Tokyo Rallway Hotel
• Open in summer, only.
+ New members.
Yaoito Hotel HARDIN
Yamato Hotel
HOANIGLURA
Yamato Hotel Horex (Makdon) Yamato Hotel BANKING
Tamato Hotel Borson (Fort Arthur)
Yamato Hotel
IN CHINA
TEINNO
Taintas Grand Hotel
For information, please apply to Becretary.
The Japan Hotel Association
Care Trafic read, Department of Rallways, Tokyo
Be Latinized
TWENTY-EIGHT LETTERS IN · NEW
SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE
The Latinization of the Chinese language, à question which has been dormant for many years on account of political reasons, has again come to the forefront. Since the commencement of the hos tilities, a need has been felt for a quick medium of making the Chi- ese masses literate. To test its practicability. Its sponsors are pub lishing several periodicals in that a-called “New Chinese Language." In brief, the new system alms to have nothing to do whatsoever with the pictographic and Ideogra ible Chinese written language and
o bring into existence a new language based on alphabets instead st on monosyllable characters:
Letters used in the Latinized alect would be hard put to make Chinese language are 28 in num-himself understood in Hankow. ber. They are in this order: a.
That means the sponsore of the utinized xystem will have to work
b, c, ch, d, e, f, E. 1...), k, l, m, n,
· PASTEURISED
Urban Council
Motion
At the Urban Council meeting on Tuesday, the Chairman will move the following Amendments of the heading. "Dairies and MUL Shops" and
the bye-lawS BOT
to the Public Health (Food) Or- forth thereunder In the Schedule
dinance of 1935:
The heading "Dairies and Milk Shops" is rescinded and the following heading substituted therefor; namely ・ "Bale of Milk generally and Dairies and Milk
Shops."
2 The following bye-laws are inserted. as bye-laws 1A to 10
ng, o, pr, Th, a, ah, t, u, w, out at least eight sets of Bialectical immediately after bye-law 1- 1, ah. Only three of the 26 Eng-versions in order to meet regional Hish alphabet letter are discard-conditions and needs.
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1A. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale or use in the
ed, namely, h, q, and v, whereas Another basic discuity in the preparation of some other article five new combinations are added. path of the Latinised language Les or food for sale any milk other namely, ch, ng, rh, sh, and rh.
In the fact that the Chinese then pasteurised milk. The principle underlying this language, both written and spoken
For the purposes of this bye- new attempt at revolutioning the has a great number of homophans. Chinese language is a simple one. In the small Commercial Press law "pasteurised" milk" means milk One expresses his ideas in writing Chinese English Dictionary there which has been heated to, and by alphabetic letters instead of by are 113 characters all pronounced retained for period of not less haracters, each of which may be, and even if these are divided than thirty minutes at, a tem- composed of as ten or fifteen or up with discritical marks to disperature of not less than 145 de- fifteen strokes.
tinguish them, there must still be grees on the Fahrenheit scale and Sponsors of this new" language considerable for guesses.
not more than 150 degrees on the movement have a number of points The problem, however, is only Fahrenheit scale, and which has in their favour. The Chinese writ- a technical one; Chinese charac- then immediately been cooled to ten or literary language, commonly tera are often used in groups. ja temperature of not more than known as Wen Id. today is only Thus, the same character 1, when 55 degrees on the Fahrenheit known to some 87,000,000 of China's used together with the character scale.
people. or rough- tse, means a pear" When it goes i ly about 20 per cent of her total together with mlen. it means in- population In other words, 80 side. When it is used together iB. (a) All pasteurising, stert- per cent of the Chinese nation is with the character hain, it means lizing, cleaning, cooling: refrigerat- illiterate, or "literally blind" as the reason, and so forth. Therefore, Ing, cold storage, bottling, Alling Chinese puts it.
this problem may yet be solved for other plant or. apparatus used upon further research;
in any dairy shall be of a tyge approved by the Counell.
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THE MILWAUKEE ROAD
The Chinese written language is composed of 23,266 monosyllabic characters Between 2,000 and 14,000 đf them are in common use. One Eas to commit each of them to memory both with regard to its Latinized
OFFICIAL BAN
For many years there was an
TEMPERATURĖ
[b Every pasteurling plant or
official ban on the use of the apparatus shall be equipped with 寫 self-registering thermometer Chinese language for
sound, meaning and the way it' is several reasons. One reason was device which will accurately in- written. This is certainly a none that it was contrary to the move-dicate and record the temperature too easy task and it requues a ment for the unification of the to which and the length of time umber of years of diligent ap-Chinese spoken language through for which the pasteurised milk plication before it can be master-the popularisation of a modified has been heated. All such records of Mandarin, otherwise shall be kept, for at least, two) known as Kuo Yu."
months and shall be avaliable for
ed.
ONLY 28 LETTERS
VIZIOS
In this connection it may be of inspection at all reasonable times On the other hand, in the case taterest to mention that it was not by any Health Officer or Food of the Latinized language, there a Chinese scholar put a Russian Officer.
are only 28 letters. An expert- servant who started the idea of 10. (a) Except where intended ment made in refugee camps in Latinzing the Chinese language. for sale in bulk, milk shall be sold. Shanghal shows that an adult of That was back between 1929 and offered of exposed for sale only in normal capacity" learns how to 1931. Professor Draguhov worked containers of a type approved by read and write It within three out the 28 letter alphabet with the Council For the purposes of weeks.
research workers in the Academy these by-laws "container" JK- Then, the Chinese written of Science in Moscow and the cludes any cover attached to a anguage, as a result of historical Oriental Institute in Leningrad, container. development, has come to such a stage that many of its characters
(by The filling of all containers shall be carried out only in the no longer coincide with the spoken He experimented with the new premises in which the milk was language. This is not the case system among the thousands of with the Latinized language. Both Chinese workers, especially the machinery or
pasteurised and shall be done by some other means of these factors account for the miners, in the Far Easter Pro-
DIVERSIFIED
slow progress in the mass educa- vinces of the US.SR As most of approved by the Council".
CONTAINERS
tion movement in China. Epou these Chinese were from Shantung sors of the Latinized Chinese and spoke the same dialect, the language belleve that they can question of diversified dialects did (e) All containers shall be thor- wipe out literacy among the not exist... Today, most of the oughly cleansed and sterilized be- masses in a much shorter time by Chinese in Soviet Russia can read fore use. The cleansing and using the new system which is so and write in Latinized alphabets. sterilizing of bottles shall be done much simpler and easier to learn. They even have a daily paper with steam or boiling water.
Furthermore, once Latinized, the called the "Workers' Way,"
(d) Every bottle used as a con- Chinese language will be in a
shall be constructed of The strongest reason against the tainer much better position to assimiläte Latinization of the Chinese langu- clear colourless glass and shall be and absorb new scientific, and age is not technical dut pólsficul.closed with a tightly fitting disc |^echnical term than the Chinese There must be a number of rea-ánd covered with an outer cover written language which, because of sons why the Chinese nation re- overlapping the lip of and secure- Its straight jacket natüre, ̈dosa mafas. Chinese instead of haringly fastened to the bottle. not render Itself early to the ac-been divided into many countries. out cover or, if the outer cover is ceptance of new words and One
of them; however, is the constructed of transparent mate- phrases."
existence of a unified written rial, the disc or a prominent label For many years engineers have language.
or labels attached to the bottle been working on a Chinese type- Further to strengthen this unity, (shall bear writer. Their best production is a the Chinese authorities have been (1) the name In English letters clumsy one in comparision with working for the popularization of or the dairyman in whose dairy the English machine. It carries Kuo Yu. Today in all public the milk was pasteurised and two boards of. 5,000 characters and schools throughout China, all les-bottled.
བྷ*
(1) the word "Pasteurised."
The
(3. These amendmenta shall
| the operator has to move a needle sons are conducted in. Kuo. Tu. unt he finds the character he Therefore, members of the rising wants and then he presses a lever. generation will all be able to come into force on the 1st day of In that way one Chinese, word is speak the national language when January, 1989.. typewritten. A fast typist can they grow up. type only 1,000 words per hour.
***** SIMPLER TYPEWRITER --
Now if the Chinese language is
The Council, will also consider the following applications:-
Restaurant Icence for No.. 431,
The Latinized language, on the other hand, has to be based, on local dialects. Thus instead of Queen's Road West, ground floor; promoting the unification of the Latinized, a simpler typewriter Chinese spoken language, it tenaneating house licence: for. No. 236, similar to the one for English or hinder this movement, which Queen's Road West, ground floor; French can be manufactured.in the light of preserving China's
eating house licence for No. 236,| This will revolutionize the Chinese national unity and culture is of Queen's Road West, ground floor:: printing and newspaper industries. the greatest importance(C.I.C.), eating house licence for No. 1884, For it a handy typewriter can be bullt, Chinese lindtypes will come
as a matter of course.
However, there, are some difi- culties.confronting the Latinized. | ·.
E
Janguage, on which the Latiniz been asked to elect
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TOLO HARBOUR ANCHORAGE
The new anchorage will be... in Tolo Harbour, in the waters of the New Territories. Wes
Owing to the large quantity of dangerous, goods passing through BY JAPANESE
Hong Kong, the Government has Pansers decided" to creâté gáħ - additional The Japanese have seized a fish Dangerous Goods Anchorage. LICENSING BOARD miies at Tsang Foo Villas, Poing junk valued at $1,800 and re-
SELECTION
Kong Village, Kowloon City: food gistered in this Colony, three miles preserving icence for No. 380. west of Tangku. system. The Chinese spoken Justices of the Peace have Hennessy Road ground floor; In a repo
It will be bounded on the east In a report to the Police, Chan of bake-house Licence for No. 65 Lion must be based, is not 2 their number to serva on the
Ko, master of the junk, reported be a line drawn north and south Stanley
floor; Village, ground unified one." Disregarding dialects Licensing Board for three years, bake-house licence for No. 218. that a motor boat from a Japan- through Bush Reet, on the north used in small areas, there are at to take the place of Mr. John Hollywood Road, ground floor; ese destroyer made the capture and south by the mainland on the west by a ling drawn 363 degreea least eight principal dialectical Hennessey, Beth...?
The crew of the junk decamped and 173 degrees through the bake-house licence No. 575; Canton groups.
The balloting will take place on
Road, ground floor: and food shop in a sampan when they noticed westernmost point of White Head For instance, the northern Chi- May 6 between 4 pm. and 8. D..ucence for No. 35. Main Street, the motor boat approaching, and and the north-east corner of No nese speak a dialect commonly and nominations, forms for which
witnessed the Lot Chol from a distance Stanley, ground floor. known as Mandarin. The pepple can be obtained at the Magistracy,
Japanese towing the Junk to the In Kwangtung and Kwangat speak must be in at least six clear days
warship. a dialect all of their own, Then before the day fixed for the he people in East China in the election, that is to say, on or be provinces of Kiangat and Cheklang fore April 30.
Lieut.
The King'a Exéquatur
Mr Hana H Melchers, far. Eastern general manager of the Transocean News Agency, who has been on a tour of inspection to
His Excellency, the Governor has approved the relinquishment of use a different dialect, In the If voting is necessary, the only Risaldar and Honorary province of Fukten there, are as persons entitled to vote will be Hayat Mohamed, Royal Indian newering Mr. Toyotchi Nakamura South Chins, left for Manila on naby as 20 different dialects. A the unomcial, Justicer of the Army Service Corps, as one of 20, Japan at Hong Kong has re- Fris
ceived His Majesty's signature. man speaking good Shanghai Peace.
HE's Hon. AD.C%
of the Empress
Can